Vicarious calibration of the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Airborne Simulator thermal-infrared channelsta

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 30, 1999, Pages 6294-6306

  Wan, Zhengming ^a   Zhang, Yulin ^a   Ma, Xialin ^a   King, Michael D ^b   Myers, Jeffrey S ^c   Li, Xiaowen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0006113757     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006294     Document Type: Article

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